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14 Apr

The Mexican town of Cherán in Michoacán kicked out its police, politicians and its drug cartels and then had one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

The majority Indigenous Purhépecha community rose up in 2011, created armed militias to fight off illegal logging and drug cartels and eventually kicked out the local government and dismantled the police apparatus which was accused of ties to the drug cartels.

The community collected the weapons, vehicles, and uniforms and established their own “ronda comunitaria” or community guard. They then set up their own system of direct governance based on Indigenous traditions and neighborhood assemblies.

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@redfishstream

13 Apr

[TW: police brutality, violent imagery]

His name was Daunte Wright. He was 20 years old when police shot and killed him during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday April 11—only 10 miles away from where George Floyd was killed last year.

Daunte was the father of a 2-year old and has been described by friends and family as a loving and devoted friend and father who worked several jobs to support his son. Daunte’s father also added that Daunte dropped out of high school because of a learning disability.

On Sunday, while driving to get his car washed with his girlfriend, Daunte was stopped by the police. According to Daunte’s mother, Daunte instantly called her during the traffic stop and told her that he was pulled over for hanging an air freshener in his rear view mirror.

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redfish

@redfishstream

12 Apr

60 years ago today, the Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first person to ever venture into space and orbit the Earth. Gagarin’s mission was a historic achievement for the Soviet Union, which beat the US in the race to launch the first human into space.

Gagarin was born into a family of peasant farmers in Smolensk. During the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union in WWII, the Germans took over his family home, deported his siblings to labor camps, and burned down the village school.

In 1946, he went back to school. A former Russian airman taught him math and science, which became his favorite subjects. While he graduated as a molder from a trade school and went to an industrial college, he worked tirelessly to be able to attend the Soviet Air Force school.

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redfish

@redfishstream

11 Apr

Today we remember when the Venezuelan people came together to defend the Bolivarian revolution, rejecting and overthrowing the right-wing US-backed coup perpetrated against Hugo Chavez in 2002. In 47 hours, the people put Chavez back in power after a coup ousted him.

On April 11, 2002 the Venezuelan elite, the Church and some military organized a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez.

Many of the coup plotters, such as Henrique Capriles and Leopoldo Lopez, continued with their opposition for the years to come and are the predecessors of self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido.

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redfish

@redfishstream

10 Apr

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Brixton Uprising, when people in one of the largest Black communities in London rose against racist police brutality and poverty during the conservative and brutally repressive Thatcher years.

During the riots police stations and cars were set on fire as thousands upon thousands of people took to the streets to fight against systemic racism and oppression, in what was called by some "a festival of the oppressed".

People in Brixton, rebelled against the Metropolitan police, who had been waging a war against Black people for decades. The Brixton Uprising gave people hope on turning things around, as they were sick of beatings and racist stops and search under "SUS" laws.

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redfish

@redfishstream

9 Apr

Prince Philip has passed away at the age of 99. While world leaders mourn him, we recall his racist, classist, misogynistic and ableist legacy with some quotes from the past:

"It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons," (While being shown Ethiopian art)

“If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (To a group of British exchange students studying in China)

“So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs” (To a group of boys at a Bangladeshi youth club)

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